Very good! I have a colleague who teaches commercial music type courses (improvisation, songwriting, etc), and he often has students who just think they can wing it and be a successful musician. He says to them: "What if you were undergoing brain surgery, and the surgeon walks in and says to you 'I never really studied brain surgery, but I'm pretty good at winging it!'" I realize this is a far-fetched analogy, but it speaks to the perceptions of people concerning what it takes to be a professional in any field versus becoming an effective artist.
Tim
On Monday, October 13, 2003, at 05:14 PM, David H. Bailey wrote:
Architecture, interestingly is the one "art" where most people can't just up and say "I think I'll be an architect today" and find any clients or design and build any buildings on a whim.
RE this, Abbing says (as part of a long discussion of the phenomenon):
"Formal regulation would be futile. If certain artists were excluded from the profession, new groups of 'marginal' artists would continuously find ways around officialdom and become more successful than 'qualified' artists." [examples: the Salon des refuse's, the Armory show, the Society for Private Musical Performances] "Secondly, given the mystique of the arts, society in general does not approve of a formal regulation of numbers in the arts. (After all, regulations might prevent a genius from being discovered.)"
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Andrew Stiller
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